The Legend of Brentnor Church The giants were all dead and the witches had been driven into Wales, by the friends of Bowerman, but one evil genius still remained. Satan still lingered on the moor. This is what is believed to have happened... A rich merchant ship, the Virtue, was laden with silks and spices from the East. The devil, which had had no recent prey, concluded to wreck the great Vessel. That night, Satan created a tempestuous storm. A rich merchant by the name of Old Hugh prayed to his patron Saint, St. Michael, to blow the ship off course of the rocks which was surely to send them to their watery grave. The devil was cackling, totally in control, when the ship was safely blown off course. This enraged the devil. As soon as Old Hugh set foot ashore, he built a church as a tribute to St. Michael on Brentor.
That very night, Satan passed over and was infuriated at what was happening, so scattered the building materials to the bottom of the tor. The next morning, Old Hugh was dismayed, but carried the stones back to the top of the tor. Each night, Satan relentlessly hurled the building materials back to the foot of the hill and every morning, it was the same scene, blocks scattered everywhere. After a few weeks, St Michael, realising what was happening, stood guard at the half finished chapel. That night, when the Devil came to the tor, just as he had said, St Michael was there, and on seeing his old adversary -the Devil - fled, and St Michael with his pure heart, hurled a gargantuous granite boulder, which caught Satan's heel, causing him to tumble to certain fatality at the foot of the tor and die. This might just be a legend, but the church still stands today, though the smallest on the moor, because Old Hugh had wasted a lot of his money in his tussle with the devil. And on a dark night some people say that St. Michael can still be seen standing, guarding the church just in case Satan decides to come back…
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